Sustainable living facts - Unilever

Sustainability goals
We have set ourselves ambitious targets in our Sustainable Living Plan:
Health and
hygiene
By 2020, we will help more than a billion
people to improve their hygiene
habits and we will bring safe drinking
water to 500 million people.
Nutrition
By 2020 we will double the proportion
of our portfolio that meets the highest
nutritional standards, based on globally
recognised dietary guidelines. This will
help hundreds of millions of people to
achieve a healthier diet.
Greenhouse gases
By 2020 we aim to halve the greenhouse
gas impact of our products
across the lifecycle – from the sourcing
of raw materials, through to consumer
use and disposal.
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Water
We aim to halve the water associated
with the consumer use of our products
by 2020. We will focus our efforts in
countries that are populous and waterscarce
– countries where much of
Unilever’s growth is expected to happen.
Waste
• By 2020 we will help more than 1 billion
people to improve their hygiene habits
and we will bring safe drinking water to 500
million people
• If we used concentrated variants we would
save over 4 million tonnes of CO2 per
year, equivalent to taking 1 million cars off
the road annually
• More than 500 billion litres of water would
be saved if all our laundry product users in Asia
and South Africa used Comfort One Rinse
• Our registered Suave shampoo bottle saved
the equivalent of more than 100 million
plastic bottles over four years
From the factory floor to the shop shelf,
we will reduce, reuse, recycle and eliminate
packaging materials from the lifecycles
of our products. We aim to halve
the waste associated with the disposal
of our products by 2020.
Sustainable sourcing
Food security is under threat from rising
populations, changing weather patterns,
water scarcity and unsustainable
farming practices. Half our raw materi-
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als come from farms and forests. By
2020 we will source 100% of our agricultural
raw materials sustainably.
Better livelihoods
We work with hundreds of thousands of
smallholder farmers, small-scale distributors
and micro-entrepreneurs, many of
whom are in the developing world. We
help them to improve their skills and increase
productivity so that they can increase
their income and standard of living.
Our goal is to link 500,000 smallholder
farmers into our supply network. We
will help to improve their agricultural
practices and thus enable them to supply
into global markets at competitive
prices.
We will also increase the number of
Shakti entrepreneurs – door-to-door
sales operators in rural India – that we
recruit, train and employ from 45,000
in 2010 to 75,000 in 2015.
• The upside-down deodorant pack for Rexona,
Sure and Dove uses up to 18% less
plastic in each pack
• All Lipton Yellow Label and PG Tips tea bags
in Western Europe were sourced from
Rainforest Alliance Certified farms
by 2010
- Covering 70 tea estates and 38,000
smallholder farmers
- Providing good working conditions for
175,000 tea growers and conserving
water supplies and protecting wildlife